Robert Mapplethorpe

Graphic Art and Design, Alumnus

The musician and poet Patti Smith chose this portrait, shot by Robert Mapplethorpe in the Greenwich Village apartment of his partner Samuel Wagstaff, for the cover of her debut album, Horses. A 2002 New Yorker article called this cover “one of the most recognizable images in the iconography of rock and roll.”

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victoria barberJuly 06, 2012

iconic

Dan WittmayerAugust 17, 2012

Mapplethorpe pushed portraiture forward in his all-too-brief career..

Dan WittmayerAugust 30, 2012

A loving portrait of a friend by Mapplethorpe. Above all, the image is flattering.

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